Famous artist Vincent Van Gogh's portraits and self portraits | ||||||||
 Self-portrait with Dark Felt Hat |  Self-portrait with Pipe |  Vincent Van Gogh selfportrait |  Portrait of Pere Tanguy |  Self-portrait with Grey Felt Hat |  Agostina Segatori Sitting in the Cafe du Tambourin |  Van Gogh Self-portrait | ||
 Self-portrait with Straw Hat |  Van Gogh Self portrait with Grey Felt Hat |  Van Gogh Woman Sitting by a Cradle |  Van Gogh Self-portrait, Paris |  Van Gogh Self-portrait |  Van Gogh selfportrait |  Self portrait | ||
 Self portrait with Straw Hat and Pipe |  Van Gogh’s Self-portrait |  Van Gogh Self-portrait |  Van Gogh Self-portrait |  Self-portrait with Straw Hat |  Selfportrait with Straw Hat |  Gogh Self-portrait with Straw Hat | ||
| Vincent van Gogh, for whom color was the chief symbol of expression, was born in Groot-Zundert, Holland. The son of a pastor, brought up in a religious and cultured atmosphere, Vincent was highly emotional and lacked self-confidence. Between 1860 and 1880, when he finally decided to become an artist, van Gogh had had two unsuitable and unhappy romances and had worked unsuccessfully as a clerk in a bookstore in the Borinage. He remained in Belgium to study art, determined to give happiness by creating beauty. | ||||||||
 Van Gogh Portrait of Pere Tanguy |  Self-portrait with a Japanese Print |  Self-portrait, Paris, Autumn 1887 |  Italian Woman (Agostian Segatori) |  Van Gogh Portrait of Pere Tanguy |  Van Gogh selfportraits |  Van Gogh portraits | ||
 Van Gogh Self portrait with Straw Hat |  Van Gogh Self-portrait with Grey Felt Hat |  Van Gogh Self-portrait in Front of the Easel |  Van Gogh La Mousme, Sitting |  Portrait of Postman Joseph Roulin |  Portrait of Patience Escalier |  Van Gogh Self-portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin | ||
 Van Gogh Portrait of Eugene Boch |  Van Gogh Portrait of Eugene Boch |  Portrait of Milliet, Second Lieutenant of the Zouaves |  Van Gogh Portrait of Artist's Mother |  Van Gogh L Arlesienne Madame Ginoux with Books |  Van Gogh Self portrait |  Van Gogh The Schoolboy Camille Roulin | ||
 Van Gogh Portrait of Armand Roulin |  Van Gogh Portrait of Armand Roulin |  Van Gogh Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe |  Van Gogh Portrait of Doctor Felix Rey |  Van Gogh La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin) |  Van Gogh Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, Arles |  Van Gogh Self portrait 1889 | ||
| The works of his early Dutch period are somber-toned, sharply lit, genre paintings of which the most famous is "The Potato Eaters" (1885). In that year van Gogh went to Antwerp where he discovered the works of Rubens and purchased many Japanese prints. In 1886 he went to Paris to join his brother Theo, the manager of Goupil's gallery. In Paris, van Gogh studied with Cormon, inevitably met Pissarro, Monet, and Gauguin, and began to lighten his very dark palette and to paint in the short brushstrokes of the Impressionists. His nervous temperament made him a difficult companion and night-long discussions combined with painting all day undermined his health | ||||||||
 Van Gogh SelfPortrait |  Van Gogh Self-portrait |  Portrait of Trabuc, an Attendant at Saint-Paul Hospital |  Van Gogh self portrait |  Van Gogh Portrait of Doctor Gachet |  Van Gogh Portrait of Doctor Gachet |  Van Gogh Portrait of Adeline Ravoux | ||
| He decided to go south to Arles where he hoped his friends would join him and help found a school of art. Gauguin did join him but with disastrous results. In a fit of epilepsy, van Gogh pursued his friend with an open razor, was stopped by Gauguin, but ended up cutting a portion of his ear lobe off. | ||||||||
| Van Gogh then began to alternate between fits of madness and lucidity and was sent to the asylum in Saint-Remy for treatment. In May of 1890, he seemed much better and went to live in Auvers-sur-Oise under the watchful eye of Dr. Gachet. Two months later he was dead, having shot himself "for the good of all. "During his brief career he had sold one painting. Van Gogh's finest works were produced in less than three years in a technique that grew more and more impassioned in brushstroke, in symbolic and intense color, in surface tension, and in the movement and vibration of form and line. |  Young Peasant Woman with Straw Hat Sitting in the Wheat |  Young Girl Standing against a Background of Wheat |  Van Gogh Marguerite Gachet at the Piano | |||||
Van Gogh's inimitable fusion of form and content is powerful; dramatic, lyrically rhythmic, imaginative, and emotional, for the artist was completely absorbed in the effort to explain either his struggle against madness or his comprehension of the spiritual essence of man and nature. Birth name Vincent Willem van Gogh , Born 30 March 1853 (1853-03-30), Zundert, The Netherlands , Died 29 July 1890 (1890-07-30) (aged 37), Auvers-sur-Oise, France, Nationality Dutch, Field Painter , Movement Post-Impressionism, Works The Potato Eaters, Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Irises, Portrait of Dr. Gachet Source: Graph Time online art culture and music magazine, Painters magazine | ||||||||
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